The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Clojure & JRuby)

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Summary
Allen Rohner discusses the benefits and the problems of mixing Clojure and JRuby running them in the same process, making some recommendations at the end.

Bio

Allen Rohner has used Clojure since 2008 (before there were official releases). He is author of Scriptjure, a Clojure to JavaScript compiler released two years before ClojureScript was released, and a committer to Clojure core, contrib, ring, compojure, congomongo, leiningen, and more. He is founder of two startups using Clojure in production, reasonr.com and circleci.com.

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Failed to explain why you need to combine JRuby and Clojure...
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Colbert Philippe

JRuby and Clojure are both complete languages. You didn't explain why you need to combine both in your application. Further more, given the high complexity of your project with all the platform combinations, wouldn't be just better to use Java? I seems to me like you didn't do a cost / complexity analysis. Java s a bit old, a bit behind the curve....but it works and we all know how it works.